Legendary creature

wise member of a long forgotten order of knights know as the Jedi, his name is Obi-Wan Kenobi played by Sir Alec Guiness. Luke and Obi-Wan need the assistance of the captain of an space freighter, his name, Han Solo played in the film by the now legendary Harrison Ford. The excentric captain has…

bottom of the mast, facing the stern, with his arms behind his back lashed to it. His head is thrown back, looking upwards towards the Sirens”. Going into a little bit more of the painting it is a scene from the journey called the Odyssey taken by a legendary hero in Greek mythology called Odysseus. Fast forwarding into his journey Odysseus and his men began to approach the Island of the lovely Sirens but before getting there as instructed by Circe in the beginning of his journey Odysseus had…

He wrote several operas about mythological creatures and historical figures, for operas were the ones to be published. However, his smaller works, especially his sonatas, are mainly focused on God and Christianity (“Claudio”). Humanism was declining, but history and tales of old were still popular…

was said to be thirteen meters long. Whether people actually saw this monster or as simple as a tree, the country of Scotland is surely getting their money worth. People come from all over the world to try to be the lucky one that can spot this legendary lake monster (“The Loch Ness…”…

According to Edith Hamilton (1999), Greek mythology is mostly learned from historical poets. The poet highly accredited with the written greek myths is Homer. He is generally believed to have lived about a thousand years before Christ. Homer’s work includes the Iliad, which is considered to be the first written record of Greece. The Iliad is the oldest Greek literature and is written in such a way that it provides an indisputable proof of civilization. Greek mythology is not be read like…

The Jinn’s characters are similar to the Christian entities of the Devil and his demons. However, the way that the West portrays the Jinn are caricatured, comic, and supernatural creatures. The Jinn are depicted as beings that grant wishes as the Disney’s version of Aladdin. In these accounts, the Jinn tricked humans and acted in a superficial matter. In a contrasting view, literature in the East represents the Jinn as frightful and sinister due to the Islamic religious beliefs. The divergent…

The question you may be asking yourself is what is a Kushtaka? The Kushtaka, loosely translated to “land otter man,” by the Tlingit people of Southeastern Alaska, is a legendary shapeshifting creature that is endowed with supernatural powers, and lives in an uncharted rainforest. Kushtaka employs psychological tactics to subdue their victims, the Kushtaka is also said to have telekinetic powers and the ability to manipulate time and space, moving at mind-blowing speed from one position to the…

battle and companionship. One main trait presented throughout is leadership and the most important leader in this epic is Beowulf. Beowulf is a strong warrior that maintains peace for his people as long as he is their leader. Beowulf was a warrior of legendary proportion but the people relied on him to much and when he dies it seems that his people are doomed. Leaders like Beowulf bring prosperity while they are in power but once they leave it creates a power gap that…

of republican-minded resistance fighters on their journey to find the last Jedi while fighting against the rise of a fascist regime. A young scavenger, Rey, a renegade Stormtrooper, Finn, and a daring fighter Pilot, Poe Dameron, seek the help of legendary smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca to bring a scrappy robot carrying information regarding the location of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker to General Leia Organa of the Resistance before it falls into the scheming hands of the masters of the First…

failure on the part of humanity and indicates that higher powers are intervening to end such failure. Realistically, apocalypse is a grand representation of the human obsession with death and resurrection. Through the utilization of fantastical creatures and detailed symbols, apocalyptic writers nourish the human desire to confront the “end’ or death. Our reality as a human culture today is closely related with apocalypse, as seen in events such as the Holocaust, Genocide in Rwanda, heat death,…